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Sunday, August 18, 2013

18th June 2013 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Neil, Mike, Alan, Keith, and Martin

Activities:

- lookered ponies, 10+1+1 !
- dismantled double fence along Jilly's boundary.  Barb brought back to store.  Stock fencing rolled and left
- bracken pulling both sides of stream and along top
- scything of bracken near bench
- scything  and slashing of bracken along ditch on SH
- second half of nestboxes
- scything path to car park


Observations:

- john gave out copies of forest map
- woodlark
- possible hobby calling
- tree pipits, goldcrests, willow warbler, crosdbills (yesterday), families of swallows and nuthatches
- 2 ? Adders and a slow worm
- small heaths
- 2 red damselleflies and 2 azures
- bog cotton
- a few bog beacons in swamp
- swifts, herring gulls


 martin

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